LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 18811, 9 December 1924, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dr Blackmore (superintendent of the Cashmere Hills Sanatorium) returned by the Niagara. Dr Blackmore studied Spahlinger’s methods of treating consumption. “ I am doubtful whether Spahlingcr has found anything better than we have already got,” ho said in an interview. “I found he was making serum from horses’ blood somewhat similar to a good many serums previously made. Spahlinger is a man who refuses really independent tests of his treatment, and although he has been urged to take in one or two bacteriologists, particularly from New Zealand, he will not agree to this being done; consequently every country is holding hack.” Sir Yincent Raven and Sir Sara Fay have concluded their investigations into the administration of the New Zealand railways, and are now preparing a report. It is expected that the report will be in the hands of the Government Thursday or Friday. Sir Sam Fay and Sir Vincent Raven will leave Wellington on Friday for Sydney. The ■ first-named will sail for England from Sydney on January 3, but it is Sir Vincent Raven’s intention to make a short stay in Australia. Mr C. Travis (secretary to the Commission) will remain in New Zealand until December 18. As a journalist connected with railway publications and an author of works on railway administration, Mr Travis intends to make a tour of the Australian railways. His two colleagues on the Commission staff (Messrs J. A. Warren King and S. E. Fay) will leave for England on December 23. A charge of manslaughter was preferred at Auckland against Wm. Pitman, land agent, at the conclusion of an inquest before Mr P. K. Hunt, S.M., concerning tho death of Elsie Lillian Roberts, who received fatal injuries through being knocked down on November 3 by a motor car driven by Pitman. The coroner returned a verdict in which ha said the motor car wris driven by Pitman in a culpably negligent manner. Pitman, when charged with manslaughter, pleaded not_ guilty, and was committed for trial. Bail was fixed at £SOO, and was forthcoming. Saturday saw. an historic meeting at Tamatekapna between the Samoan faipules and the representatives of the Maori race—the first recorded for 1,000 years. The Arawa chiefs welcomed the Samoans with intense cordiality, to which Mr Too Lnpe, the spokesman for the Samoans,_ replied. Dr Te Rangi lliro.i, for the visiting officials of the New Zealand Government, in a great speech detailed the history of tho Polynesian migration and tho significance of the reunion. It was recognised, he said, by the Samoan and tho Maori that the races wore identical in custom, tradition, and language, the lastnamed only differing in form. _ The Samoans were shown over the district, and were immensely impressed. In the Supreme Court, New Plymouth, before Mr Justice MacGregor, James Howard Kilminstor, who pleaded guilty to five charges of forgery’, was sentenced to reformative detention not exceeding eighteen months. Alfred Thomas Allen was acquitted on a charge of manslaughter arising out of a fatal motor cycle collision.